As I was headed to bed last night my wife said she wanted me to watch a news clip she recorded on Channel 12 local news KPTV here in Oregon. The segment was about the “frightening” statistics showing the percentage of parents choosing exemptions for vaccinations has been climbing every year and was approx. at 6.4% this year. The segment had brief interviews with Pediatricians and professionals in favor of vaccinations, warning that this rise in exemptions was posing a critical and frightening issue and that all parents should be concerned for their children’s safety. My wife wanted me to watch the segment because I’ve become so critical and skeptical of the efficacy and safety of vaccinations: link to letter I sent to the Pediatrician to which I received NO response below, even after I advised him that the CDC recommends all parents to question adverse effects witnessed or known by the pediatrician and the ingredients therein (risk factors for administering vaccinations and surety that the individual has been tested for allergens to the ingredients they contain).

I could feel my blood boiling as the segment went on and when the reporter said there was new legislation to be voted on in Senate Bill 132 I about lost it…I lost all interest in the segment and proceeded to walk some mail out to the box. She knows my position on vaccines due to all the research I’ve done and as I walked out the door I posed a question/statement to her, “doesn’t it scare you that they are trying to legislate away the rights of parents to care and make decisions for their OWN children”, to which there was no response…the thing that scares me more than anything is the fact that parents are being ridiculed by the introduction of such legislation as if they have no knowledge of what they are exempting their children from and that in doing so they are putting their children in danger. THE STATE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR CHILDREN! THE PEDIATRICIAN HAS NO INTEREST IN THE PRESERVATION OF YOUR CHILDREN’S HEALTH WHEN THEY CANNOT EVEN RESPOND TO A FORMAL LETTER ADDRESSING LEGITIMATE CONCERNS ABOUT VACCINE SAFETY! YOU AS PARENTS NEED TO STAND UP AND SCREAM – WRITE YOUR POLITICIANS AND QUESTION THEIR EVERY MOTIVE!! I will not comply and state a religion for exemption just because it is not a recognized religion and I will not be subjected to a STATE-sponsored tutorial on vaccine safety because it is a conflict of interest and biased from inception.

If you live in Oregon I implore you to write in and voice your opinion of this introduced legislation and make it clear that lobbyists are not going to legislate you children’s health, because we all know that this type of legislation has Big Pharma and vaccine manufacturer’s names all over it.

Kitzhaber signed this legislation into place apparently as the local news reported this morning.

Sometimes I want to give up! My wife immediately looked over at me when the mention of the bill passing came up. I felt like grabbing the television and putting my knee through it, but why?!

Now I have to watch a State-sponsored propaganda film in order to claim religious exemption for vaccinations of my children. What next...submit a multi-page research document on the topic of vaccinations or an essay to justify my decision as a PARENT!

I'm fed up with the State! They continue to make it all the more difficult to make decision about our own children and they are about to push to far!

I am writing in support of SB 132 Immunization Education. The bill recently passed out of committee and will be considered on the Senate floor soon. I urge your support and aye vote.

Senate Bill 132 seeks to promote informed decision making among parents about immunizations. Often parents seek information online about vaccines; information that is often inaccurate and incomplete. This legislation will ensure parents receive credible, medically-based information about immunizations and vaccine-preventable diseases. The bill will NOT prohibit a parent from exempting their child from school immunization requirements; it will not reduce a parent's right to decline immunizations based on religious or philosophical beliefs. SB 132 simply provides parents with information about immunizations and community immunity.

Passing SB 132 is important and necessary. Oregon currently has the highest rate of immunization exemptions for kindergartners in the U.S. This high exemption rate could increase the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and whooping cough. In 2011, Washington passed similar legislation resulting in a 25% decrease in school immunization exemptions in that state.

Please vote "aye" on SB 132. Thank you for your attention to this very important issue.

This letter is for those who wish to send cookie-cutter support and the letter totally disregards research parents might do online as often inaccurate and incomplete...how frustrating!

as a formal professional letter and he didn't even acknowledge that he received it...so this segment from the article below is a joke!

Senate Bill 132, if successful, will require parents who request a non-medical exemption from immunization requirements to either complete an online educational video or obtain a signed form from their health care provider, in an effort to educate parents about the risk of opting out of immunizations, and about vaccine-preventable diseases and community immunity. Current law requires children enrolled in child care and school to submit a form verifying they have received required vaccines. Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children currently submit a form stating their exemption.

It just makes me resent those who push fear as a method for comformity...I love how they try to legislate more "education" into the mix as if parents exempting have no clue why they are exempting...I told my wife there is a reason the exemptions are RISING and its becuase parents are MORE informed, not the way these "professionals" would have you believe in their ignorance for exemption.

Post a copy of your letter, I'll try to get it answered by my sister (gynaecologist but works closely with paeds). Might take some time though as they are REALLY busy. She owes me though so she will get you an answer in maybe a couple of weeks or a month.

That might address some of your concerns/ confirm some of your doubts.

My wife is cut from the same cloth. If I had a nickel for every time I have prefaced similiar questions to my wife with "doesn't it bother you". It's hard being awake, harder still dragging your s/o through life while they are still asleep.

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They tried to bury us, they didn't know we were seeds. -mexican proverb

like the "sovereign" folks have been saying for years. When parents sign their children up to be citizens, they essentially forfeit their rights. I would like to know which infant actually gave legally binding consent to being a US citizen? Of course they did not. But their parents did.

But you can agree in contract to give up the protection of those rights. This is what it means to be a US citizen. A maxim in law is that if you receive a benefit, you must pay the price. This may not represent a "valid" contract, as all the terms may not have been presented to you with respect to citizenship, but the hill to climb is a high one to unravel its byzantine antecedents and and prove otherwise in a system that doesn't support you.

You are talking about "unalienable" rights, which can be under contract.
The rights described in the Constitution are "inalienable" rights. These are rights that we are all born with and cannot be taken from us.

There's a big difference between the two. Very important information, look into it more if interested. Notice how the Declaration of Independence uses "inalienable" for a reason.

Inalienable:
Not subject to alteration; the characteristic of those things which cannot be bought or sold or transferred form one person to another, such as rivers, and public highways, and certain personal rights; e. g., liberty.

Unalienable:
Inalienable; incapable of being alienated, that is, sold or transferred.

~ Blacks Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 1951

The point I was making was not that one looses, or abdicates his natural rights, but rather that through contract relinquishes his right to have them protected by the government.

One can have rights, but if no one will help defend them, they become more difficult to assert.

Through contract one can relinquish the right to have them protected by the government?

Rights can't be relinquished, privileges can be.

It seems to me that we don't have the right to be protected by the government; we pay them a protection fee for the privilege of being left alone by them.

If we want our rights protected we have the right to do so, as described in the 2nd Amendment. The right to defense cannot be relinquished, it's our choice to roll over and let anyone have their way with us or stand up and fight.

Every aspect of life takes courage and fortitude. Especially when the system has all the cards stacked against us. I salute you.

As my best friend first said: "The system's not broken. It's working exactly as it was intended." Though I assert, with slight modification, that it was established from the beginning with inherent flaws that would allow for its eventual alteration from something more pure, to the abomination that it has intentionally become today.

Every step each one of us can take to exist outside it is a piercing of the veil of the lies, fraud, and deceit upon which this altered system is built.

There are those who have gone so far as to correct their nationality, and are thus inhabitants of the States, but completely outside and independent of the federal statutory system. The more that choose to walk this road, the greater their independence can be, and the weaker the system becomes.

Small steps are still steps. Let the system collapse under its own weight with out our help to keep it going.

Sorry for your troubles. I've been having blood boiling episodes a lot lately.
Another 'symptom' I get is a gut wrenching pain in my mid section when thoughts of how corrupt, evil, and faux altruistic many prominent figures are in this country, and that people around me cannot realize it. I literally feel pain in my sides when I think about it sometimes.

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